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it's a funny old world

why should the Palestinians accept defeat? it seems like it's a live issue as long as they want to make one of it, and the idea that they should just suck it up and get on with things is the conclusion to an argument, not its premise.

we should organise a dissensus geopol reading group

you can do it tonight and btfo craner

read the original paper

theres a stalemate, true, but the stalemate favours russia on balance, bc of troop numbers and shell supplies. at least, that's my understanding.

is it really winning the ideological war? my impression is that most people treat Russia's position as highly motivated. the problem today is more that's it's winning the actual war (winning is an exaggeration maybe, but the trajectory favors russia)

not you, of course, craner. I mean people with less foresight - policy makers, think tankers, "normal" people

there's a tragic element to all of this

and which europe is structurally incapable of competing in, since it lacks the ability to defend itself, relying instead upon NATO, and principally upon the US. europe is not in that sense a geopolitical actor, yet it is caught up, necessarily by the ukraine crisis, stretching back to the fall...

they were on record saying that they didn't want to see the fall of the ussr. which was overtaken by the resurgence of russian nationalism which precipitated its collapse. which then places the newly independent state of ukraine (after it gave up its nuclear weapons, and with its proximity to...

bush and thatcher, if not their antecedents, were quite aware of this

it's always been a problem, the only reason it seemed otherwise is this mysterious phenomenon whereby we assumed history ended at the same time

the fraught geopolitics of ukraine were baked in since it declared independence in 91

the medium is the message

belfast is major, easily the best city in the uk

continuation of us forever war in Iraq seems significant

https://www.jns.org/uae-israel-land-corridor-operating-despite-war/ Basically a corridor linking the Israeli port of Haifa with ports in UAE and Bahrain - meaning you can ship goods from the Persian Gulf to Europe via Israel.

this "land bridge" thing over SA is interesting - you would think the abraham accords were pretty fucked now but that does not seem to be the case, at least, not totally

where does this end?